@darribas @defuneste Should get that quote on my tombstone

I took some time to listen to this podcast:

https://mapstodon.space/@darribas/115022053317138713

from @darribas

I am definitely in Rachel Franklin "Camp".

Lot of great points, 100% agree on the tension between automation and interactivity that those "tool" try to deal with (pick a lane LLM).

Headed to Detroit for the #AAG2025. Excited to spend a week with fellow Geography nerds in one of the most interesting urban stories of the XXth Century! Catch me at the sessions (image via Rachel, thanks!) we’re organising w/ @rsfrankl, Elizabeth Delmelle and Isabelle Nilsson. Come say hi!

This is the first on a list of new and exciting jobs we're announcing for Imago, the @sdruk.bsky.social Data Service for Imagery. If you like working on making satellite data more useful, usable, and used by social science, public health and policy making folks, get in touch!

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN363/data-service-project-manager-grade-7

Second open post for Imago, the Smart Data Research UK Data Service for Imagery. This is for an outreach & PE officer. If you like working on making satellite data more useful, usable, and used by social science, public health and policy making folks, get in touch!

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO468/imago-outreach-and-public-engagement-officer-grade-7

On the theme of spooky 👻 Levi, @rsfrankl and myself have a brand new episode of #theGLaDpodcast 🎧🎧🎧 This one, no less, on Digital Twins. You love them, you hate them, you can't ignore them...

📣 https://gladpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-18-the-one-about-digital-twins/

🚀🚀🚀 Imago is a go!!! 🚀🚀🚀

Super excited to be part of this SDR UK portfolio of data services! Our Imagery Data Service (code name Imago) will combine the power of satellite imagery—its timeliness, its spatial resolution, its growing range of sensor capability—with state-of-the art computation, computer vision, and stakeholder-led coproduction to ship research-ready data products that help respond to urgent societal challenges in sustainability, wellbeing, and prosperity.

https://www.sdruk.ukri.org/2024/10/17/22-million-for-new-smart-data-services/

@rsfrankl, Levi Wolf and yours truly have a new #GLaDpodcast episode out on d*cks, d*ckish behaviour, what gets you visible out there, and what does make you more visible but perhaps you wouldn't want it to. All that and more 👇

https://gladpodcast.podbean.com/e/dobt-be-a-duck/

Last week I had the honor to present our work on land use at Urban Analytics in the Turing to the UK minister for AI. More info at: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/geospatial-commission-funded-tool-demonstrates-potential-for-ai-to-transform-decisions-about-land-use

🎧🎧🎧 New #GLaDpodcast episode!!! 🎧🎧🎧

Just in time to cozy up by 🎄and/or a blanket with a warm beverage of choice and enjoy the incredible Elizabeth Delmell, Ozge Oner and Jon Reades give you their takes on cities in 2023 and beyond:

https://gladpodcast.podbean.com/e/holiday-special-2023-vibe-check-on-cities/

🎙️ Only 2 more sleeps to the event of the season: the #GLaDpodcast Holiday Special! ☃️✨🎅

This year @darribas.mapstodon.space, @levijohnwolf, and I are joined by VERY special guests Jon Reades, Özge Öner, and Elizabeth Delmelle for

...🥁🥁...

A Vibe Check on Cities 🧨🔥🎇

Like podcasts? Big fan of geography and data banter? We have something for you...

#GLaDpodcast is back and we've got the one & only James Cheshire as our very special guest—how do those atlases get made? how did he end doing the things he does? It's all here ⬇️

https://open.spotify.com/episode/75mUTrTZ1QQBN04ZkunpfU?si=f3wlipn6RQORuyhfF5UDyQ

📢📢📢NEW #GLaDpodcast EPISODE 📢📢📢

Episode 10: a day in the life of... James Cheshire. Where we take a peek into the person and mind behind the mind-blowing books on maps of everything, from animals to the invisible (!).
🎧 https://gladpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-10-a-day-in-the-life-of-james-cheshire/

I gave an overview at the Geographic Data Science Lab of our new book "Geographic Data Science with Python" where I talked about the motivation (why), the content (what) and the container (how), and did a quick demo:

📃 https://geographicdata.science/bookupdate/2023/09/13/dab_overview

📺 https://youtu.be/2Qxaf0xQJiY

Perhaps most amusing, I tried (and mostly succeeded!) to demo the book live, from my iPad, streaming on Teams, through JupyterLab _and_ Rstudio. What's better, you can do so too! Details on the blog post.

With summer and all (!) I've been a bit quiet here, but over at the #GLaDpodcast we've been pretty active! Two episodes dropped:
🏙️🚴 15min cities! https://gladpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-6-15-minute-cities/
📦🎧 and one from the #SADinterviews vault, Danny Dorling! https://gladpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-7-danny-dorling-from-the-vault/

Aaaaaand... we now have a mailbox you can use to tell us everything, from which hot takes you like the most to what you'd like to hear more of in the future. We'd love to hear from you! Send us your thoughts at: thegladpodcast@gmail.com

I've decided to try to use Mastodon more seriously for work, rather than just for fun (great though it is for that too), so have moved to a more work-related instance. Finally given up on the birdsite, which is broken beyond repair. Looking forward to chatting about #socialsciences teaching and research, as well as general stuff (mainly #ukpolitics and #dogsofmastodon). I'm also currently obsessing over #goodomens.

Whether you're Team 15-Minute City 🌇🏙️

or

Team "Please Stop Talking About 15-Minute Cities" 🙉📢

our brand new #GLaDpodcast episode has you covered.
@darribas, Levi Wolf and I discuss it all: the old, the new, and especially the hot take-able 🔥

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Th86Ozpa09yLnwBVWQAz7?si=12a98b9d8e5544db

Welsh Twitter don't care about London, but Cardiff Twitter does. Rachel Sanderson @ #RSAIBIS Conference

🎙️🎙️🎙️New on #GLaDpodcast🎙️🎙️🎙️
Lazy weekend? We’ve got the perfect episode! The one where
@rsfrankl, @levijohnwolf and I discuss our (academic) hobbies🏇 and our hobby horses🎠 (no discussion on actual horses🐴though!)
🎧 On your favourite podcast platform or at: https://gladpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-5-hobbies-and-hobby-horses/

Final report on the National Land Data Programme is out today. You can have a read over the report, and peruse the pilots document, where we at the The Alan Turing Institute Urban Analytics had the pleasure to chip in on spatial modelling for land use: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/finding-common-ground-integrating-data-science-and-innovation-for-better-use-of-land